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ORACLE TEAM USA SPITHILL (Jimmy Spithill) rebounded from last place at the first turning mark of the “Super Sunday” fleet race finale to win the America’s Cup World Series San Francisco Championship. Spithill and crew Dirk de Ridder, John Kostecki, Jono MacBeth and Joe Newton were “dead last” off the start line, (...)

ORACLE TEAM USA SPITHILL showed the resiliency today at America’s Cup World Series San Francisco that is the mark of a great team. The veteran crew, led by skipper Jimmy Spithill, overcame a spectacular capsize in Fleet Race 5 and later won the Match Racing Championship of the event sailed on San Francisco Bay. The U.S. Coast Guard (...)

l’Hydroptère DCNS arrived in San Francisco Bay a month ago, when the America’s World Series regattas resumed between the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. During several weeks, the flying sailors shared the technology of their "flying carpet" with the American public and their training sessions with guests on board. A few (...)

ORACLE TEAM USA became the second America’s Cup team to launch and sail an AC72 AC72 #AC72 on Friday, taking its new boat, ’17′, out on San Francisco Bay in the morning. “We got the boat in the water and got sailing. We slowly brought it up and everything was looking good,” said skipper Jimmy Spithill. But the (...)

ORACLE TEAM USA’s first AC72 AC72 #AC72 is wheeled from the build shed into the light. After a day of testing and a brief but all-important christening, she touches San Francisco Bay for her very first journey.

Ben Ainslie, dubbed by many as ‘Big Ben’ in the last few weeks, was in London today sailing a special British branded Finn along the Thames in front of Big Ben to give thanks to those who have supported him along the way to his historic fourth Olympic gold (...)

Bruno and Loick Peyron have made their mind up. In less than a year, Energy Team has managed to raise themslves up to join the best teams in the world in the preparatory circuit for the America’s Cup. Sharing a place on the podium at the end of the first season in the America’s Cup World Series with Oracle Team USA and Emirates (...)

About the America’s Cup

The America’s Cup is the oldest trophy in international sport, dating back to 1851, when the yacht America, after which the trophy is named, beat the best of the British fleet in a race around the Isle of Wight, U.K. The trophy won on that day was donated in trust through a Deed of Gift and has since become a symbol of immense achievement. It is perhaps the hardest trophy in sport to win. In it’s 165-year history, only four countries have managed to win the America’s Cup.

The America’s Cup is currently held by the Golden Gate Yacht Club in San Francisco, U.S.A.. On September 25, 2013, its team, ORACLE TEAM USA, completed the biggest comeback in sports to retain the trophy it had first won in 2010.

On December 2, 2014, Bermuda was named as the home of the 35th America’s Cup, with the iconic Great Sound as the race course area where the new America’s Cup Class boats (15-meter, foiling, wing-sailed catamarans) from each competing nation will race for the America’s Cup in May/June 2017.